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Bug#744267: eggdrop: GPL + 4-clause BSD incompatibility



Source: eggdrop
Version: 1.6.19-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3

Dear Maintainer,

src/compat/inet_aton.c contains code licensed under the 4-clause BSD license,
which includes the "advertising" clause:

 * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
 *    must display the following acknowledgement:
 *      This product includes software developed by the University of
 *      California, Berkeley and its contributors.

This is incompatible with the GPL [1][2], which is what most of eggdrop's
source is licensed under, making this undistributable by Debian as-is.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-5-vclaptop-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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